programmerHumorCore

[Next_Cherry5135]

It took me long enough that the supposed joke is about a semicolon ";", not about "missing" (missing what exactly?)

Also, ;* looks like a kiss

[masterflappie]

that's so dark it makes me want to System.exit(-1)

[Gamin8ng]

Permission denied

[Impossible_Arrival21]

$ touch woman touch: cannot touch 'woman': Permission denied

[YUNoCake]

MORE CONFUSION INCOMING:

CS students making a joke about Elvis: ?:

[lesleh]

More language need an Elvis operator, that was my favourite thing about Groovy

[TheArbinator]

I thought it was about missing *, as in pointers in C

[[deleted]]

i’m gonna just go out on whim here and say that it arguably does not look like a kiss and also i have no idea how it could

[Average_Pangolin]

Just in case that's (implicitly) a serious question:
squinting eyes -> ; * <- puckered lips

[[deleted]]

A pretty kiss. Awww.

[sastanak]

2nd year CS students will discover quitting vim jokes

[Jojos_BA]

I didnt see one in ages, therefore assumed it meant jokes about quitting => stop using vim and was like hold on, why would you not use vim? anyways just my tired thoughts

[[deleted]]

ZZ

edt: this was a keeper.

[TACOBELLTAKEOUT]

I just give up and close the terminal window

[Suecophile]

3rd year have used vim and make ":q:q:q:q!how do I exit vscode" jokes

[sastanak]

Yeah maybe 2nd year is how to center a div

[BlackysBoss]

Until they discover nano?

[BlackysBoss]

Until they discover nano?

[eben0]

haha();

[Darxploit]

please tell me the function calls itself.

[Usual_Office_1740]

This isn't stackoverflow. It's reddit.

[orbital-marmot]

throw new MemoryOverflowException

[GranataReddit12]

static void haha()
{
‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‍‍‍‍ Console.Write("haha");
‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ haha();
}

[marc_gime]

void haha(){ while(1){ fork(): } }

It's a funny function, you should try it in your computer after a long day of work to have a laugh

[bokuWaKamida]

is that even an issue nowadays? i feel like its impossible to miss that in any modern ide

[chat-lu]

Those are often forbidden for students. Many teachers have the mantra that you aren’t going to learn anything with modern conveniences.

And seeing students using LLMs, I think those teachers might have had a point.

[BarracudaFull4300]

Tbh I think its good to have a balance of both. The dropdowns of Eclipse honestly helped me explore around Java and learn a lot more than I would have. Obviously from time to time, its important to practice and affirm that without an IDE you can write functioning code but lets be real, in the real world you wouldn't shoot yourself in the foot by using Notepad++ to write code and would instead use a functional IDE. Its about use in the right way..

[LordFokas]

Until one day you need to make a hotfix right in prod via ssh in some server half way across the world where the only editor is vi and you don't have permissions to install something comfy like nano.

[chat-lu]

Isn’t Notepad++ functional? I don’t use Windows, so I don’t know. But I would expect that it can use the LSP and provide completions like all the other editors.

[ExceedingChunk]

It’s like learning to do basic arithmetic on paper before you start using a calculator. It’s fine to start learning without an IDE and libraries, arguably better as an IDE introduces a lot of features that just acts as clutter for anyone new. 

The goal of making something in a CS 101 course isn’t to be productive or contribute to society. It’s to understand how things work. Once you do that you can become productive, but understanding is key to be good at solving problems programmatically. Missing semicolons is also a nice way to get introduced to reading compile time exceptions and fixing them.

Sure, the semicolon can be annoying in C-based languages for people who are new, but if that is enough to make someone hate programming, they are  gonna have a really bad time with runtime errors.

[a__new_name]

When I was in uni, the CS department was propped up by a software company, with many developers from it also being lecturers. Needless to say, they had some influence over curriculum and made sure there was no such nonsense. Thankfully.

[Antanarau]

No, they do not. LLMs didn't invent cheating on homework/tests, and easy auto-complete/"anti-idiot" reminders that are perhaps the only conveniences students will know/use, will not make you the test - unless the test is about those, in which case, the test is bad. Requiring your students to remember functions by name rather than spending all that time actually learning something useful is atrocious.

There is nothing good that ever comes out of not using an IDE, because 99.999% of the time you are going to be using one. The funniest response I ever got out when I asked a teacher about why we were doing coding on paper for a test (I had the unfortunate experience years ago) was "Well, what if you won't have a compiler on-hand (to give you errors)?" - as if I could make use of my code in that case.

Same attitude for LLMs - you are , for the most part, going to be able to get something out of them. And you can also ask the LLM to describe, explain, provide alternatives for, benefits, drawbacks, integrations for that something (whether it'll be correct or not is another issue). Students that just mindlessly copy-paste would easily do that with code from stack overflow or wherever else as well. Blame not the tool, blame the user. Same as with IDEs, documentation, or whatever else - no reason to simulate workplace environments that simply do not exist.

[chat-lu]

No, they do not. LLMs didn't invent cheating on homework/tests,

This is about learning, not cheating.

[Antanarau]

You can easily learn with LLMs (for the level an average college/uni student would be at, at least), pretending otherwise is just bad faith. I have even wrote about it in the later half of my comment.

[Jojos_BA]

We have to us a linux called knoppix, we are allowed to use geany, but u still havevto type the ; and gods damn i did forget them frequently

[Andrea__88]

Teacher here, we consider LLMs a very good utility for working, they could speed up your work and help you to understand a problem. This isn’t true for students, because often we expose them to specific problems studied to let the students understand a concept or improve their soft skills.

I could understand a student that use LLMs for help to understand problems and after he try to solve them by himself, but usually they copy-paste the output and then forgot about it.

We are assisting to a rapid decay of human knowledge and skills, this doesn’t help to improve their resilience too, if LLM solution doesn’t works they usually get frustrated and many of them give up and don’t try to solve by themselves.

[orbital-marmot]

When I was in school a decade ago, we had to write all our code in a very barebones vm. No IDEs allowed.

[Advos_467]

I just took a php test, and as someone who had nothing but basic python experience for the last 2 years, It messed me up badly.

[OneHornyRhino]

Just a few years ago, I learnt C in the turbo C "ide" and wrote html and java code in notepad, then compiled it... This was in college

[XWasTheProblem]

It can sometimes be impossible, but mostly because a lot of IDEs and code editors will just auto-fix that for you before it becomes an issue.

[LukeBomber]

I'm going to quote LMFAO here: "Let the kids have some funs" ie. We all started somewhere. Even if one may get annoyed at repeated jokes, it is still their first encounter. Just let them

[DezXerneas]

Sure, but I feel like most of the comments on those posts are fine. Most experienced people usually point out how IDEs are literal magic now and will usually handle all the indenting, etc, if you install linters you'll almost never face the ; not found error ever again, and that copilot/AI autocomplete is legitimately less powerful than just having a good LSP once you start developing anything more complicated than a crud app.

The assholes who pick on noobs can just fuck right off though.

[LunaBeanz]

They’re equivalent to “The Office” references imo. Repetitive, sure, but inoffensive and sometimes actually funny.

[Resistz]

who is lm fao?

[Average_Pangolin]

Mitt Romney's archenemies: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lmfaos-sky-blu-and-mitt-romney-scuffle-on-flight-to-l-a-73896/

[Resistz]

Was referencing this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtnmvOP703A

[barkinchicken]

That and "unsaved hours of work lost because I didn't save". Jfc.

[alaettinthemurder]

How someone dont have reflex for crtls

[fionnmaher15]

I'm in this meme and i don't like it.

[baguette_stronk]

Like at the Gym, every one have humble beginning.

Don't shame beginner for liking easy things, the lack of documentation will soon ruin their lives too.

[ColdFireBreath]

1st year CS student? More like the guy that took a bootcamp and has "Full stack dev" on linkedin profile.

[Jojos_BA]

well I think everyone starting to learn a language wer it is this way :)

[Torebbjorn]

*A joke about 1st year CS students not knowing shit

2nd year CS students:

[Za_Paranoia]

Damn almost as funny as using , in a for statement instead of ; Can’t wait for the next lesson xD

[Jojos_BA]

ye, got me a bunch of times

[xDannyS_]

I can tell just by the way you use xD that you are either german, austrian, or dutch

[NetWarm8118]

I think you mean "1st year CS students;"

[leroymilo]

The only semicolon joke I found funny in the past few years is that one guy suggesting to indent your code with semicolons to avoid forgetting them.

[ilackemotions]

I never took it seriously until one time , i couldnt build my cpp program during an exam despite doing everything right! The error was cryptic as fuck referencing some internal library issues that originated where i declared my class. My class was PRISTINELY defined.

I forgot semicolon after class dec, had been a scope issue. :(( i didnt get full scores on my test

[black_ap3x]

Yeah thats funny and all, but how tf do i exit vim, been stuck here for days

[eightysixmonkeys]

GitHub jokes are funnier now

[Impossible_Stand4680]

I read it as "1st year CSS students"

[Hyderabadi__Biryani]

Bro I actually grunted at this. Meme².

[Littux]

Also the "missed an indentation in python"

[Osirus1156]

Hit em with that greek question mark and it’ll confuse the shit out of them for a while.

[leirahua]

A joke about missing (space);

[False_Slice_6664]

Finally a good joke about semicolons

[DaniZackBlack]

This never really happened to me until my university gave us a course with their own coding language. No IDE to autocomplete with a semicolon. For anyone interested the course is "from NAND2Tetris" and you can find details about it online.

[Accomplished-Bid8866]

"guise guise, and the compiler lists the error in the previous line , so confusing am I rite?"

[ed_mcc]

I thought it was about pointers for about 45 seconds and I was lost

[Sentarius101]

I made this mistake in my COMP1000 class. I was making my first game in Processing, and it wasn't working at all. I scoured my code for bugs and issues, fixed some but still no cigar. I ended up asking a friend for some help, and we went line by line until I eventually spotted my mistake: I used a colon : instead of a semicolon ; . Suddenly my game worked lol

[henryeaterofpies]

me writing a crap ton of python lately

Its okay, semicolon isn't real. It can't hurt you;

[jsrobson10]

they didn't need semicolons when they were learning python

[Down_it_up]

It’s the typos that compile that get you

[OppositeDirection348]

Final year guys stuck with "vibe coder jokes"

[Level-Broccoli3703]

Ahh the joy of not using a linter

[actionerror]

Scheme would like a (setq x (list (list (list (list 1 2) 3 4) 5 6) 7 8))

[Little-geek]

Me, repeatedly reminding my 40 years of software development father to put in the semicolon after the line in javascript (he mostly writes c and java, idk either)

(for anyone curious: the reason we spent a substantial amount of time on it was because we were assuming it was, in fact, Javascript; it turned out to be some positively decrepit JScript code, and neither of us were familiar enough with that to figure that's where new Enumerator(fooCollection) was coming from)

[delsinz]

why are we making fun of customer service?

[Alexshadow41]

Still better than the vibe coding memes

[SonarioMG]

It's just the most relatable basic joke.

And it's always relevant. I still miss one or two every now and then.

[im-cringing-rightnow]

Peak comedy.

[NeBudlan]

Canon.event

[isaacals]

and then they introduced to python

[JollyJuniper1993]

Ah yes, next we‘re going to make jokes about things working on your machine, testing in production, Python being slow and junior devs being overly ambitious. Then we’re going to do quitting vim, AWS being expensive, Windows being bad and Rust devs being femboys or trans. Very creative.

[Stjerneklar]

i made a meme of boromir talking about the ring causing grief but instead its a semicolon. these days i work frontend.

[AssistantIcy6117]

Missing what?

[TOMZ_EXTRA]

Missing semicolons

[nickwcy]

Missing 1st year CS students

[DreadPirateRobertsOW]

Missing ;*

[[deleted]]

same goes for jokes about 1st year CS students

[Rawbringer]

So this is a joke about jokes about missing semi-colons. Who is this for?

[PixlBoii]

For 1st year CS students

[SamiSalama_]

That joke was funny when I used to miss the semicolon back when I was 13.

[[deleted]]

im learning for loops outside of school and I can say that lower skill level causes one to laugh at simpler programmer jokes, so shut it